A Grade One Area Court sitting in lugbe, Abuja, has restrained Chief Ralph Okey Nwosu and others identified as members of his factional leadership of the Inter Party Advisory Council, IPAC, from acting, functioning, or parading themselves as members of the Central Management Committee of the Council.
The Court also restrained them from conducting any election into the office of the National Chairman or President of IPAC or any other offices.
In his ruling on the exparte motion, Justice M.A. Sadiq, restrained the Okey Nwosu led Factional group from giving effect to the purported inauguration of an ‘illegal’ Central Management Committee by Mr.Peter Ameh, the former chairman of IPAC.
Dr. Leonard Nzenwa, the National Chairman of AAC had approached the court to stop Nwosu and others from further parading themselves as executives of IPAC.
In his ruling, after listening to counsel to the plaintiff, Mr. Chibuzor Ezike, the court also restrained Mr.Peter Ameh, who was listed in the suit as the 1st Defendant from exercising any power, function or duty of the National Chairman or President of the IPAC or doing any other act whatsoever relating or pertaining to the office of the National Chairman or President of IPAC.
The court also granted an order for substituted service of all the process either by delivering same at their last known addresses or through their Whatsapp Numbers.
IPAC ran into crisis following the de-registration of 74 political parties by INEC in February.
The remaining 18 political parties elected Dr. Leonard Nzenwa to lead them pending the conduct of full elections.
A competent High Court in Abuja also affirmed Leonard as the Chairman of IPAC and gave him full powers to lead the organisation including any future transition.
However Mr. Peter Ameh whose party, Progressive Peoples Alliance was one of the de-registered Parties refused to recognize the election and went ahead to inaugurate the Okey Nwosu Central Management Committee from which the Court has now restrained from parading or acting as members.
Earlier, another FCT High had in another suit recognized and validated the position of Dr. Leonard Nzenwa as the duly elected leader of the IPAC.
If Peter Ameh continues to disobey the orders of Court, Counsel to Nzenwa, Mr. Chibuzor Ezike told reporters that they would move the court to commence criminal trial against him.
”A de-registered party that won an Appeal which is currently being challenged by INEC at the Supreme Court and have not been listed as a registered party does not have the legal right to call itself a political party, carry out the functions of a registered party or participate in choosing leadership for IPAC until the Supreme court decides the pending Appeal and an enforcement is carried out either by INEC or the Court”, Ezike said.
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